Overview This page is dedicated to topics and issues identified in our 2012-13 common reading text, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. If you find a useful source, topic, or page, please post it under the appropriate category below.
Potential Topics
Malpractice
Access and quality of healthcare
Universal healthcare
Issues of race and access to quality healthcare
Class and equality
Johns Hopkins Hospital then and now
Profit sharing for cells being commercialized
Informed consent
Experimentation on humans
Holocaust experimentation
Nuremburg Trials and ethical code of conduct
Policy on human research subjects today
Bioethics
Cloning
Genetic research
Topography of HeLa cells around the world
Diseases which have been cured/understood with HeLa cells
Issues of ownership
Privacy of medical records
Religion/faith and cultural reactions to science
Cultural perceptions of health practice
Women's access to healthcare
Women's rights and medical procedure
The evolution of cancer treatment and methods since Henrietta's death
This page is dedicated to topics and issues identified in our 2012-13 common reading text, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. If you find a useful source, topic, or page, please post it under the appropriate category below.
Resources
Reader Guide
Teacher Guide (still useful for students)
HeLa Study Guide
Potential Topics
Malpractice
Access and quality of healthcare
Universal healthcare
Issues of race and access to quality healthcare
Class and equality
Johns Hopkins Hospital then and now
Profit sharing for cells being commercialized
Informed consent
Experimentation on humans
Holocaust experimentation
Nuremburg Trials and ethical code of conduct
Policy on human research subjects today
Bioethics
Cloning
Genetic research
Topography of HeLa cells around the world
Diseases which have been cured/understood with HeLa cells
Issues of ownership
Privacy of medical records
Religion/faith and cultural reactions to science
Cultural perceptions of health practice
Women's access to healthcare
Women's rights and medical procedure
The evolution of cancer treatment and methods since Henrietta's death